“IKEA Effect”: When Labor Leads to Love Michael I. Norton Daniel Mochon Dan Ariely Working Paper 11-091 Copyright © 2011 by Michael I. Norton‚ Daniel Mochon‚ and Dan Ariely Working papers are in draft form. This working paper is distributed for purposes of comment and discussion only. It may not be reproduced without permission of the copyright holder. Copies of working papers are available from the author. IKEA Effect - 1 - The “IKEA Effect”: When Labor Leads to Love MICHAEL I. NORTON
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Effective cross-cultural communication is one of the most important issues dealt with in business‚ particularly when a firm operates at an international level. Communication is a process with three key elements‚ which includes a source‚ an audience‚ and a channel. Communication derived from businesses will have listeners that include‚ but are not limited to customers‚ employees‚ suppliers‚ and the community (Caddy et al.). These listeners contribute to the success of a firm‚ which is why there is
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The concept that I found most important in Module 5 was the trust element of the Right to Lead Assessment Model. The main reason I find this concept to be crucial to how to lead people is simple‚ without trust‚ leadership does not exist. If your people do not trust you‚ how can they be expected to stand by your decisions? For example‚ when I was a Senior Airman at my last duty station‚ my supervisor would always get outraged with me when I corrected him on certain job specific tasks that he was
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across the snow is a thrilling moment no one will ever forget. Cross-country skiing is one way you can feel this exhilarating moment. Learning about the history‚ the techniques‚ and about some athletes that perform this sport can be strenuous but also interesting. Generally speaking‚ cross-country skiing is one of the most watched sport in the Winter Olympics up next to hockey and figure skiing. Nearly 100 years ago the first male cross-country skier raced competitors from other countries in the first
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communication‚ based on cultural understanding‚ would contribute positively to the solution appearing cross-cultural conflicts in teams. 1. Issues of Cross-Cultural Conflicts Appearing The use of teams represents an
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“Culture is the collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from others” Professor Geert Hofstede conducted one of the most comprehensive studies of how values in the workplace are influenced by culture. He analyzed a large data base of employee values scores collected by IBM between 1967 and 1973 covering more than 70 countries‚ from which he first used the 40 largest only and afterwards extended the analysis to 50 countries and 3 regions.
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been very beneficial to Jimmy Cross in Tim O’Brien’s‚ The Things They Carried. Although he was a symbol of Jesus Christ‚ Cross knew he could have been a better leader‚ especially with how absorbed he was in his love‚ Martha. By burning his letters and photographs of Martha‚ though‚ Jimmy Cross came to terms with a reconciliation emphasized by the themes there is an abiding concern with the question of battlefield courage and love overrules war. To begin‚ Jimmy Cross had a spiritual reassessment when
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When I decided to join cross country team my freshman year‚ I never envisioned myself being a part of what would become known as “the best team in Hammonton history.” Three years ago‚ I finished the season as one of the very worst on the team‚ with no expectations being placed on me for the future. Fast forward to one month ago‚ when I along with my fellow six varsity teammates lead Hammonton to its first Atlantic County Championship in school history. While much of my improvement can be attributed
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Dockray-Miller‚ Mary. "The Feminized Cross of the Dream of the Rood." Philological Quarterly 76.1 (1997): 1+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 15 Nov. 2014. The article “The Feminized Cross of the Dream of the Rood” discusses the concept of feminism as it is applied to the cross and the notion of masculinity as it is applied to Jesus‚ and how they were connected as well as proving the gender theory. Dockray -Miller‚ an American scholar of Anglo-Saxon England best known for her work on gender in
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“Cross-cultural psychology is the study: of similarities and differences in individual psychological functioning in various cultural and ethnocultural groups; of ongoing changes in variables reflecting such functioning; and of the relationships of psychological variables with sociocultural‚ ecological and biological variables” (Berry et al‚ 2012). Defining Cross-Cultural Psychology Berry et al (2012) define their topic using the English language‚ which of itself contains culturally-bound concepts
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